Jobs school girlfriend to publish memoir

JULIE BOSMAN

‘Enormous appeal’

Oct. 5: Chrisann Brennan was one of Steve Jobs’s first serious loves, his high school girlfriend and the mother of his daughter Lisa. Now Brennan will tell the story of her relationship with Jobs, the Apple co-founder who died in 2011, in a new memoir to be published next year.

St Martin’s Press, part of Macmillan, said yesterday it had acquired the rights to an untitled memoir by Brennan, who is now a painter based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After meeting him at Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, Brennan later lived with Jobs in a cabin, meditated with him and attended lectures. “At 17, Steve had more than a touch of the cool sophistication of a Beat poet,” Brennan wrote in an article in Rolling Stone after his death. While in her early 20s, she became pregnant and gave birth to their daughter, who is known as Lisa Brennan-Jobs.

Jobs initially denied paternity of his daughter but later developed a closer relationship with her. St Martin’s said Brennan’s memoir would cover a range of subjects, including her relationship with Jobs and “Jobs’s enormous appeal, energy and drive as well as his developing ambition and ruthlessness in business and personal dealings”.